Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-15

to do in order to get your products of
this class to market in the quickest pos
sible time, owing to the highly perish
able properties OF thesa and then with
all of these precautions you have many
times met with very Indifferent success,
at the same time never reaching the far
distant markets of the Atlantic sea-
board. By the use of cold storage, as
applied by the Inter. Ocean Gold Storage
and Shipping Company you will be en-
abled to reach these markets with your
most perishable fruits, thus opening up
to you a much larger field and bringing
your fruits in less competition with each
other, and at the same time your rates
of freight will not be nearly as high, for
by this system a difference of two or
three days matters not as the fruit knows
no change. For example last season
while you were paying 5000 per car for
express service on grapes, they were
being taken by the cold storage process
from Santa Ana to Chicago for $3.50, a
saving in freight alone of $370 in favor
of cold storage, besides having your
grapes delivered there in a much better
condition than when hauled by express,
and netting a profit instead of being
called upon to remit from this end to
pay the freight.
One more point, gentlemen, and will
trespass no farther upon your time. We
have heard read in this convention @
letter saying that it took from four to
five days to prepare the fruit for haul
of from six to seven days duration, and
second preparation for q longer
haul and the additional prepara-
ton of the car for the same
purpose. By our system we can prepare
your fruits in twenty.four hours, as o
usual thing and never to exceed forty.
eight hours, for q haul if needs be to
New York City and return.
Again, Mr.. Allgretta closes his letter
with the assertion that ''fruit treated by
the cold storage process commences to
decay az soon Is removed" These may
not he his exact words, but they convey
the Same idea) Gentlemen, in refutation
of that statement, which is radically
wrong, wish to call your attention to
the fruit now on exhibition on yonder
table, There is fruit that was placed in
our cooling house February 9th, by
Messrs. Griffin & Skelley, and removed
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Holt, taken to Griffin 4 Skelley's ware
house, there unpacked in the presence
of Rev. Geo. H. Derre, L. M. Holt and
E. R. Skelley, and found to be in aperfect
state of preservation, not a single decayed
orange or lemon being found, since which
time it has remained there subject to all
the variation of the temperature, and
brought to this hall April llth, after
having been out of cold storage exposed
for fourteen days. There are also six
boxes of citrus fruits on the same table
that were placed in our house the same
date February 9th) by the same firm,
and removed here the morning of April
llth by them, having been treated by us
for sixty-two days. l invite careful
examination of the same, and see if you
can detect any i'll effects of cold storage.
On the contrary you will see that the
fruit has improved by its treatment, and
has still as long life as when removed
from the trees.
Gentlemen, these experiments were
made and watched by reputable busi-
ness men of this community who wished
to know Just what could be accomp.
lishe by cold storage in the treatment
of citrus fruits. The result is before
you and speaks for itself.
He was followed by Mr.. L. M. Holt,
of the Riverside Press. as follows:
MIR. HoLTs ADDRESS.
Mr.. Holt said: The time of the Con-
4 vention has been largely taken up in tine
discussion of the insect question, which
is very important one, but it is of very
little use raising fruits if we cannot sell
them after we get them raised. In the
first place we have got to rAise them,
and in the next place comes the question
of how to get them to market in such
shape that we may realize a profit on
them. We have given the question of
marketing fruits careful study here,
and have come to the conclusion that
this is the broadcast question now before
the people of California. 1t has been
said that this question of cold storage is
not essential to citrus fruits. Invent to
Chicago year ago and there saw car
loads of fruits one-half of which wer Q
roten l went through some of the
houses there on South Water street
where they showed me box after box of
fruit which had to be repacked. They
would in repacking put about ten boxes
into five. I sent lemons there myself
at one time and only about 25 or 80 per
cent WAS marketed and the rest reported
as rotten. Whether it was rotten or
not 1 do not know. There was probably
not as much rotten as reported, but
could not help it. Now if we had our
lemons shipped there by cold storage,
we would know that they were in con.
dition to be put upon the market and
they could not be reported as rotten
lemons. l believe the same to be true
in regard to the orange question. We
know that a large percentage of the
oranges do rot when sent to the eastern
markets. If we can save five or ten per
cent of our oranges from rotting by
sending them to the eastern market
through cold storage it will pay us we'll
to do it. Another thing in regard to
the orange and lemon question: We all
know that lemons ripen long time be.
fore we can place them upon the market
They ripen in the fall, but if put upon
the market at that time we would have
to compel the Eastern people to drink
lemonade when the thermometer was
forty.five degrees below zero, and that
they will not do. We could not put our
lemons upon the market heretofore be.
cause we could not keep them in proper
condition from December until July. l
believe that this cold storage question
is going to solve that problem as far as
Southern California is concerned. We
see in this cold storage the realization of
our hopes for raising and marketing our
lemons. We can put our lemons in cold
storage in December and keep them
until next July, and then sell them
when they will bring good returns. I
think that the time of this convention
could not be better used than to give
this question of cold storage a good,
thorough, careful consid Grafton. 1t is
of considerable value to both Southern
and Northern California.
We have not been able to ship fruits
to the East because we have not been